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...popularity (via Gallup poll) reach a new all-time peak of 73%, breaking all records for his eight years in office -18% greater popular approval than his 55% Third Term vote of confidence in November...
...time has come, according to MacLeish, when Harvard must admit that it has reached the peak of its expansion, and that it must organize itself within existing frontiers rather than expanding its present limits. The swing toward specialization and isolation of knowledge in one field has come to an end. Fields are becoming increasingly coordinated with each other, and the cooperation has led to great advancement in learning...
...Partly they could thank their own recent merchandising aggressiveness, stimulated by the chains and mail-order houses to whom they had been losing ground. With March volume 10-15% ahead of 1940, and April even better, department stores may this year equal their 1930 levels, if not the 1929 peak...
...Even so, the future of electricity in the Northwest clearly belonged to the Bonneville Power Administration. But McKee had a substitute line of goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration. His gas volume last year hit a ten-year peak; his appliance salesmen outsold Bonneville power appliance salesmen. But for real profits, he needed more income from gas by-products as well (such as briquets, lampblack, benzol, road-surfacing tar). So now he is building the new by-products plant, hopes to boost by-products sales from 25% to 33-50% of gas sales...
...next big shipping season the inspectors backed up their blockade with armed highway police, sheriffs, constables, deputies, even a few game wardens. On a peak day they had 100 trucks lined up, 29 drivers in jail, another 30 out on bail. Next day a group of Valley shippers formed the Growers & Shippers Cooperative League* to try to keep their produce moving...